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As I sit on her neighbor's carpet, my hostess and her wily sidekick settle themselves into a delicious languor as they relate their adventure of the night before to an African nightclub new to them. It had been very late before they decide to go and well into morning before they return home, despite the fact, and maybe because of it, that I am due to arrive early that morning.

They went to dance, as they often do, and which is all they do that night. Still, something salacious is hovering in their accounts as a private joke.

The saucy smaller woman, sitting with one knee raised and one foot under her, passes me a joint. She stretches towards me. As they laughingly speak of themselves as "new meat", she lifts her hips just so to reveal the indentations in the fabric of her pants. She smiles at me with a hint of invitation in her eyes. Self-satisfied, she knows she could have me.

- Richard Rappaport, Is That All There Is! - The German Girl, Book III - 'The Penumbra', "Portraits & Passages", www.richard-rappaport.net.

This photograph shows the artist in his studio in Vincennes, France by the Cuban photographer Herman Puig and is placed on an ad page in Flashart, November/December 1995 to announce the artist's solo exhibition "The German Girl Nude", December 15-29, 1995 at Galeria Magdalena Baxeras, Barcelona, Spain.